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Digital Collection: Random Images

Postcard - 21--Horticultural Building, Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.

Model, Product - Packard - Single-Six Coupe

Print, Photographic

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Print, Photographic

Program, Theater

Print, Photographic - North Side of Lyman Between St. Aubin and Dubois

Print, Photographic

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Negative, Film

Print, Photographic

Blueprint - First Floor Plan,
Lakeshore Village Shopping Center for Milton Ratner

Book - Beyond the Difference

Postcard - West Side of Main St., Oxford, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Blueprint - [University of Detroit - New Dental Center]

Program, Theater

Poster, Political - Keep Detroit Moving, Keep Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh

Print, Photographic

Postcard

Model

Menu

Card, Trade

Print, Photographic

Transparency, Slide

Postcard - Wyandotte, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Map - Re-Development Plan, Belle Isle Park, Prepared by the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority

Postcard - Dr. Ira E. Parker, Res., Dryden Mich.

Print, Photographic

Brochure - Ethnic & Proud, WIID 1090 AM

Music, Sheet - Because

U-Matic - Belle Isle :60, :30

Card, Business

Postcard - The River Drive, Grosse Isle

Transparency, Slide

Print - Woodward Avenue

Print, Photographic - Palm Wood, Woodward Ave

Music, Sheet - The Letter Song

Print, Photographic

Print, Photographic

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Stereograph - General Motors Office Building, Detroit, Mich.

Print, Photographic

Negative, Film

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